The 29-year-old mocked someone as a ‘hairy barren lesbian’ and ‘butch lezza’ and tweeted about the desire to 'gay bash' a TV star - but said she was stepping down due to the 'endless attacks on my character'

By Alain Tolhurst

6th March 2018, 10:10 am

Updated: 6th March 2018, 12:52 pm

THE TRANSGENDER model Munroe Bergdorf has resigned as a Labour LGBT adviser after “homophobic” tweets were unearthed.

But the 29-year-old tried to blame media “attacks” for her being forced to step down, despite being found to have mocked someone as a "hairy barren lesbian" and "butch lezza" and tweeted about the desire to "gay bash" a TV star.

She also criticised a singer on television, saying: "You have to admit she did look like a butch LEZZA tho."

The DJ from London wrote that a character on the American TV show Glee was so "annoying" that: "Even I'd like to gay bash him!"

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But the 29-year-old tried to blame media 'attacks' for her being forced to step down

Ms Bergdorf said in a statement: “In 2010 I hadn’t yet transitioned and was outwardly presenting and identifying as an effeminate gay male.

“Tweets were juvenile jokes made with friends […] however they were in bad taste and certainly not reflective of who I am today at 31 years old.

“I’m not going to try and excuse them, as there is really no excuse.”

But there were a slew of calls for her to resign or be sacked from the role, including Nigel Evans, a gay Tory MP, who said: "I'm absolutely shocked. I don't know which community she's representing but it is certainly not mine."

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And today she revealed she would be stepping down, with a statement on Twitter saying: “Following last week's exciting announcement that I had accepted a place on an LGBT advisory board assembled to offer counsel to Dawn Butler, the Labour party's women and equalities minister, it is with great sadness that I have decided to step down.

"This is a decision that I've had to make due to endless attacks on my character by the conservative right wing press and relentless online abuse.”

She added: “I won't let this continue to be a distraction or stand in the way of the LGBT+ panel's success.”

But responding to the resignation the Conservatives’ deputy chairman James Cleverly said: “Munroe Bergdorf shows no contrition or self awareness.

“Blames the media for reporting the vile comments that she has made over a number of years.

“My criticism of her was based solely on what she said, not who she is.